It's important for country fans to know that I'm not just trying to come in and take their money for a CD.
On the iPhone I tended to draw with my thumb. Whereas the moment I got to the iPad, I found myself using every finger.
If you see the world as beautiful, thrilling and mysterious, as I think I do, then you feel quite alive.
What an artist is trying to do for people is bring them closer to something, because of course art is about sharing. You wouldn't be an artist unless you wanted to share an experience, a thought.
Of course you can still paint landscape - it's not been worn out.
I've always been a looker. Loads of people say, "I never saw that" - but that's what artists do.
I believe that the very process of looking can make a thing beautiful.
The telling of a story, like virtually everything in this life, was always made all the easier by a cup of tea.
As I told you, from the time I was fifteen, I thought the theater was too much involved with actors trying to make the audience love them, being over emotional.
Citizenship has not delivered Indigenous Australians the same quality of life other Australians expect. Basic human rights involve health, housing, education, employment, economic opportunity, and equality before the law, and respect for cultural identity and cultural diversity. These human rights must be capable of being enjoyed otherwise they are empty gestures.
I'm sure we all can remember back in the day when you're 17, naïve, you're sort of just this unblemished teenager. You're sort of sheltered and haven't really seen the real world and then when you do see it, you're just like. . . "This is the world? This is reality?"